India’s Universal Service officials seek information about teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid


Posted on March 25, 2007  /  0 Comments

On March 22nd, LIRNEasia was invited to present the Teleuse@BOP findings to the staff of the Indian USO Fund and interested members of the Telecom Commission.   It was a great honor to share our findings with this knowledgeable audience, knowing that they make the decisions regarding disbursement of the world’s second largest universal service fund.

While the slides that were used are by no means the sum total of the findings from the survey, they are the broadest slice of data presented so far.  The discussion ranged from interpretation of the survey findings to whether or not broadband access should be subsidized, a question triggered by the rather shocking findings about the use and knowledge of the Internet at the BOP in India.

The presentation slides can be downloaded here.

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